Lost disk space

From: virus (virus_at_clear-net-nz)
Date: 11/29/04 

Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 18:23:50 +0000

I upgraded my HDD and to transfer my existing gentoo partition to the
new HDD I used the command : dd if=/dev/sda6 of=/dev/hda6
The transfer completed ok and the OS works after running lilo.
The problem is that the origional partition was 5G and the new one is
7.5G ,
fdisk tells me that the partition is 7.5G but the command 'df' tells me
that the partition is still 5G.

How do I reclaim my lost HDD space on the new partition ?
Or is dd the wrong command to use ?

I tried fsck but that doesn't give me any errors.
Is fsdebug the right tool too use here , I haven't had any success so far...

cheers

Grant 

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